Pin Inspector Review: What We Found, and When to Pick PinPinterest

Pin Inspector is a desktop program from AppBreed for Pinterest research: it pulls pins, boards, people and keywords from Pinterest into a grid on your computer.

We bought it on 2026-10-27 for $47 and tested version 2.0.4.8 the same evening, to compare it with PinPinterest, which we make.

So this is one tool maker writing about another.

Each fact says where and when we read it, and what Pin Inspector does well is in here as plainly as what it is not built for.

What it costs

Its sales page, read on 2026-10-29, asks $67 once, or $47 with the coupon shown on the same page, and no monthly payments.

That includes free software updates, a 30-day money-back guarantee and, under the current offer, installs on up to 10 computers with a commercial licence.

The page offers no free trial, so the guarantee is the way to try it.

What you need to run it

It is a desktop program for Windows and Mac, and its sales page says it is not cloud based, so there is no web or phone version.

The Mac download we received, version 2.0.4.8, is built for Intel Macs; on our Apple-silicon Mac it ran through Rosetta, Apple’s translation layer.

Apple has said Rosetta stays available as a general tool for Intel apps through macOS 27 (MacRumors, 2026-06-10).

If your Mac has Apple silicon, ask AppBreed which build you will get.

What it does well

• A lot of data per pin. Its sales page lists 52 data columns for every pin. In our test, a pin search came back with saves, repins, comments, each reaction type, the category and the hashtags, among others.
• Boards and people, too. It reads boards (18 data points each, by its sales page) and accounts (19), and finds both for a phrase.
• Keyword ideas from Pinterest’s own suggestions. Its keyword tool runs a seed phrase through Pinterest’s search suggestions letter by letter and returns a long list of what people type.
• Pinterest’s own numbers. The count in its keyword columns matched Pinterest’s own topic-page count to the unit (more on that below), and it has tools for Pinterest Trends’ rising phrases.
• One payment. If you would rather pay once than every month, $67, or $47 with the page’s coupon, is the whole bill.

Where its volume number comes from

In our test on 2026-10-27 (Pin Inspector 2.0.4.8), for all 20 search terms it found, the number in Pin Inspector’s Search Volume column (its sales page calls it ‘REAL monthly search volume’) was exactly the search count that Pinterest itself puts in each topic page’s data, a field named internal_search_count.

Pinterest does not say what period that count covers.

We then set Pinterest’s count beside the monthly searches that Pinterest Ads Manager shows for the United States (October 2026): the count fell inside Ads Manager’s range for 1 of 83 terms, and for none of the 20 above.

How we did it: we drew terms at random, with a fixed seed, from each of Ads Manager’s US ranges, and added 8 terms we already knew, 134 in all; 83 of them have a Pinterest topic page that carries the count.

We typed 25 of them into Pin Inspector’s Annotations > Keywords tool on 2026-10-27, then read Pinterest’s own topic pages for the same 25, logged out, within two minutes; 20 had a topic page, and the other 5 were found in neither place.

The ranges are what Ads Manager gave for the United States in October 2026, read the same day.

Two examples, both from Pinterest’s own pages: for “cozy bedroom” the topic page holds a count of 682,201, while Ads Manager’s US range for October 2026 is 10K–100K.

For “fall outfit teen” the topic page holds 463, and Ads Manager’s range is 1M–2M.

So the number is Pinterest’s own.

Pinterest shows search volume only to advertisers, as ranges inside its ads tools, and it is not public.

What the topic-page count measures, and over what period, Pinterest does not say.

What it is not built for

Pin Inspector reads Pinterest when you run it.

That suits research done in one sitting, and it leaves out the jobs that need watching over time.

• History. Each run is a snapshot of that moment. It keeps no day-by-day record of a keyword or a pin, though you can save a run to a file.
• Rank tracking and watched accounts. Nothing checks where your pins sit for a phrase each day, or picks up a competitor’s new pins.
• Alerts. Nothing tells you when one of your pins stops getting traffic or Pinterest flags it.
• The web and your phone. It runs on the computer you installed it on.
• An API. Its data stays in the program and the files you save.

Pinterest’s count in PinPinterest

Since 2026-10-28, PinPinterest shows the same Pinterest count on a keyword’s card, in the Keywords tab, in the bulk lookup, and through our API and MCP server.

We call it Pinterest’s search count, never a monthly figure, because Pinterest does not say what period it covers.

We read it for a limited number of keywords a day, so a new keyword can wait a few days for it.

Next to it sits our own demand band (High, Medium or Low).

What we measure is the saves earned by the pins that rank for a phrase.

When PinPinterest is the better pick

Pick Pin Inspector if you want to pay once, you want many columns on pins, boards and people, and you work on a computer it runs on.

Pick PinPinterest if you want to follow keywords and accounts over time: history, rank tracking, alerts, the web and your phone, and an API.

Our plans start with a free one that takes no card.

If PinClicks is also on your list, our PinClicks comparison sets those two web tools side by side, and Pin Inspector’s sales page has its current offer.